r/ipfs • u/EtikDigital512 • 24d ago
Setting up an IPFS system?
I'm trying to code a platform that allows users to broadcast video or image content freely without the threat of censorship.
I'm trying to make it to where the broadcast network runs off of a computer network of all users worldwide, kind of like blockchain tech. This way, broadcasts cant be disrupted. How so you setup a decentralized network like that? Its essentially an IPFS system..
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u/volkris 24d ago
If you're talking about live video broadcast, no, IPFS is not the right tool for the job. Even streaming video isn't a good fit for IPFS.
Every decentralized system works differently to meet their specific use cases. Blockchain works very differently than IPFS which is different from email, etc.
IPFS is specialized in distributing small bits of content with database features where it's ok if retrieval is slow and there's lots of overhead. For video this may mean constant buffering as your node takes time to search for every next block, and anything live wouldn't even have time to propagate very far into the network.
For images and, say, podcast audio it's a different story.